Speaker 1: Great year last year?
Speaker 2: Did you make any adjustments going into last year? I
Speaker 2: just really uh did the same thing I've been doing
Speaker 2: my whole entire career. But it was just I got
Speaker 2: an opportunity, and you know, uh, going into my seventh
Speaker 2: year now as I got older, I just been learning, Uh,
Speaker 2: after all the different vets I've played with, different schemes
Speaker 2: I've play I've been playing in and you know, I
Speaker 2: just made the most out of it.
Speaker 1: Is there anyone in particular lingered leaning on in the
Speaker 1: cornerback room?
Speaker 2: As you get acclimated into the system, pretty much everybody,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm getting to know everybody, uh a little by little,
Speaker 2: so uh, I can't pinpoint a one person too much.
Speaker 2: But uh, I'm watching a lot of Mooney. You know,
Speaker 2: he had a lot of success last year. So uh
Speaker 2: when I go back and watch games from last year,
Speaker 2: I try to watch him, you know, and what stands
Speaker 2: out to me with him is he took the ball
Speaker 2: away when they threw him the ball, he caught it. Uh.
Speaker 2: He was in a great position all the time. He
Speaker 2: was taking advantage of the defense and it worked out
Speaker 2: for him. So I'm trying to follow after his footsteps.
Speaker 1: You got your the the mini scheme that you've been in.
Speaker 2: What what is it about this scheme that you feel
Speaker 2: like fits your skill set. I feel like it's a
Speaker 2: we we do a variety of different things. I feel
Speaker 2: like it's a a mixed We don't play I don't
Speaker 2: think we play too much zone. We play a little
Speaker 2: bit of a man too. But uh, you know there's
Speaker 2: there's somebody in every single window. Uh not to say
Speaker 2: too much, but there's somebody in every single window. There's
Speaker 2: help everywhere. Once you really get into it and dive
Speaker 2: m deep into it and uh you know, believe in it.
Speaker 2: If you see all these different players like Fred and Mooney,
Speaker 2: that's why they take off, cause, uh, you gotta trust
Speaker 2: in each other. Just trusting somebody being here and there
Speaker 2: and just doing your job. There's a chance to play
Speaker 2: deep into the postseason.
Speaker 1: What appealed to you about this opportunity.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a it's a winning team, it's
Speaker 2: a winning franchise.
Speaker 1: It's a great franchise.
Speaker 2: Feel like you don't really uh decline and offer to
Speaker 2: play for a team like this, and uh, I know
Speaker 2: they have such a great defense to come in here
Speaker 2: and uh play a main role in this type of
Speaker 2: defense with these great play uh players like Bosah Fred
Speaker 2: all these all these other guys.
Speaker 1: You know, I couldn't pass it up.
Speaker 3: He makes ball comment on how quickly you kind of
Speaker 3: fit into the culture here, into the locker room. How
Speaker 3: would you describe that that culture?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's just everybody here come to work,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. I feel like one thing
Speaker 2: about this locker room is everybody's together, like even myself,
Speaker 2: like some of the guys that I really got to
Speaker 2: know on the team is mostly offensive guys, but like, uh,
Speaker 2: everybody hang out with each other. Everybody's really cool. Everybody
Speaker 2: come to work, everybody's about their business. We had fun
Speaker 2: at the end of the day. But it's not clique
Speaker 2: at all. Everybody brothers, you know, and that's what UH
Speaker 2: winning teams do. So it's good to see that.
Speaker 3: Unique for you hanging out with offensive guys so I
Speaker 3: and you know, socially things like that, Nah.
Speaker 1: Not really they they they cool, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2: When I get on the field, you know, I don't
Speaker 2: I don't like 'em much, but off the field, I.
Speaker 1: I love 'em a lot.
Speaker 2: And uh, it's great to hang out with those guys
Speaker 2: see how they think. Uh, hear them talk offense, sometimes
Speaker 2: hit them talk ball. On the other side, it's it's
Speaker 2: really cool and you need to see what are you
Speaker 2: at guarding pearsol or rookie?
Speaker 3: What do you see from him?
Speaker 2: Does you look like you can somebody step in a
Speaker 2: good tribute?
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: I like him a lot. I haven't complimented him yet,
Speaker 2: but I like him a lot. And he get he's
Speaker 2: a great releaser. I think he runs great routes. I
Speaker 2: think if he keep working and he keep doing this thing,
Speaker 2: he's gonna be great in this offense, great playing in
Speaker 2: the NFL for a while. So I'm a big fan
Speaker 2: of him. And I like working against him every single
Speaker 2: opportunity I get. I want to work against him. Uh.
Speaker 2: I think he making me better. I think him going
Speaker 2: against me, uh, it's making him better too. So I'm
Speaker 2: a big fan of him.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't like the compliment rookies too much. But like
Speaker 2: I said, I like his game. I think he got
Speaker 2: some confidence too. He got some dog in him, so
Speaker 2: he knows it. He knows he's pretty good. And I
Speaker 2: just hope that he continues to work. And that's the
Speaker 2: thing I like about him. He just go to work.
Speaker 2: He just shuts up, just goes to work. And whether
Speaker 2: it's a downplayer or good play, he just come back
Speaker 2: and go to work. He don't hang his head and
Speaker 2: he just keep going. So I loved that about him.
Speaker 1: How does he kind of straddle that line because it's
Speaker 1: a rookie.
Speaker 2: You don't want him to say too confident, but you
Speaker 2: know he gives off the vibe.
Speaker 3: That he knows is alright.
Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, you know as a receiver, I I like
Speaker 2: my receiver super confident, So I don't mind that.
Speaker 1: I like I think receivers should.
Speaker 2: I like receivers when they're cocky and freaking dogs and confidence.
Speaker 2: So I love that about receivers. I like the way
Speaker 2: that he Uh carry himself. I think he gonna fit
Speaker 2: right in there with Juan and uh I Yuk and
Speaker 2: Deebo and you know those A's a dog group of receivers.
Speaker 2: So you get uh rookie in there too.
Speaker 1: That's great.
Speaker 2: Sad that you're a completely different player from the time
Speaker 2: you guys were in Denver.
Speaker 3: What's different about.
Speaker 1: Him about him? Or what what's different from the time
Speaker 1: you guys were in demer Uh.
Speaker 2: Well, he was my OLB coach uh then, but we
Speaker 2: was really close. Uh even though he was the OILB coach,
Speaker 2: I was always close to him.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: I had a up and down year when I was
Speaker 2: in Denver, but I was really close to him. I
Speaker 2: would always go into his office. He would talk uh
Speaker 2: ball through me. He would help me out. And to
Speaker 2: have him here now in the secondary room in the
Speaker 2: dB room really helping.
Speaker 1: Us out pre practice, he really uh.
Speaker 2: He playing a big part of my game right now.
Speaker 2: He uh he's trying to take us to a different
Speaker 2: uh level.
Speaker 1: He believe in me. He was a big reason why
Speaker 1: I came here.
Speaker 2: So I'm taking everything I can from him and being
Speaker 2: able to work one on one with him. Uh. It's
Speaker 2: paying off for me, and I think it's playing off
Speaker 2: for all the rest of the DB's in the room too,
Speaker 2: and I know they love him too.
Speaker 1: He's been hands on, sorry say again.
Speaker 2: Not uh not really I can't say, cause he was
Speaker 2: an OLB coach uh then, but uh now he's hands
Speaker 2: on with us, and I know we got three dB
Speaker 2: coaches now in the room and everybody giving a little something.
Speaker 2: And it's great to hear from a guy who was
Speaker 2: a head coach, a defensive coordinator at the time. Uh,
Speaker 2: he played, He's coached every single position on the defense,
Speaker 2: so he's he's a mastermind when they come about defense.
Speaker 2: So he uh tell us a lot that we need
Speaker 2: to know so we can go out there and play fast.
Speaker 3: Or gave us an example of how he said, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is when you're at the line, you're not gonna
Speaker 3: get this route as often.
Speaker 2: So this is you know, why are you taking this up?
Speaker 2: What is what's sunny?
Speaker 1: Example of what you right for sure?
Speaker 2: It's like, uh, I remember one thing he said about
Speaker 2: a certain route, Like he's like, everybody always so scared
Speaker 2: that the receiver's gonna do I don't wanna tell y'all
Speaker 2: his little tricks, but like he's like everybody always like corners,
Speaker 2: we always so scared of receiver it's gonna do this
Speaker 2: off of this route, but like it's like a fifteen
Speaker 2: percent chance a receiver do that. So like he and
Speaker 2: that's something that last year I learned too, and I
Speaker 2: try to tell my guys over in New Orleans. I'm like,
Speaker 2: when you see this route, just go so like it's
Speaker 2: the same thing that Staley's saying, and I'm glad that
Speaker 2: he tell the guys here because that's the same way
Speaker 2: I think.
Speaker 1: And that just comes with being confident.
Speaker 2: And if they get you, they get you, Okay, they
Speaker 2: gonna they gonna get you two out of ten times,
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna take my chances at all those eight times.
Speaker 2: So it's the same thing that they, Uh Staley's trying
Speaker 2: to take teach us, and it's just taking away routes
Speaker 2: and when you get certain stamps, just going and believing
Speaker 2: in it and don't think twice about it. And if
Speaker 2: it's not that route, look at the sideline.
Speaker 1: You take a deep breath and go again.
Speaker 2: But that's
Speaker 1: Thank you.